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This 8-page resource, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on the geometric design of guitar bodies. During the activity students will determine the total surface area of a guitar body by "measuring, calculating, and combining the individual areas." The learning objectives for...

This 3-page resource, from the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity for creating an electric guitar template design. The learning objective of this activity is "to teach students the fundamentals of electric guitar body template design by tasking them to actually make a useable paper cardboard...

This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is a demonstration of making a guitar body spread as part of the computer numerical control (CNC) process. Topics covered include selecting the appropriate wood type, gluing the wood pieces together, attaching clamps, planing to desired...

These resources, from the STEM Guitar Project, include an example syllabus, a grading rubric, and consent forms that are related to the STEM Guitar Building Institute. The syllabus is intended to be an example for a STEM guitar build course. The syllabus includes sections on materials covered,...

This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is a demonstration of adjustment of the neck pocket depth during electric guitar construction. Adjusting neck pocket depth is described as a way to repair over-sanding of the guitar face and/or issues with neck thickness. The video runs 5:33...

This webinar from the STEM Guitar project provides information on the transition to remote learning for the Summer 2020 STEM Guitar Remote Institutes and was created for Institute participants. The STEM Guitar project engages high school and college faculty and students in hands-on guitar design and...

This 25-page report, published by Beijing Information Science and Technology University, describes the design and construction of the underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) created by the G_Robot Team for the Telepresence Explorer Class of the 2022 MATE ROV competition. MATE ROV is a global...

This 22-page report, from Hackley School, describes the design and construction of the underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) created by the Hackley Aquatic Engineers team for the Ranger Class of the 2023 MATE ROV competition. MATE ROV is a global competition that challenges STEM students to...

This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, was recorded at the Guitar Build Institute held at Aptos Middle School in San Francisco, California in 2018. In the video Steve Brown demonstrates hand sanding a wooden electric guitar body. The video runs 3:52 minutes in length and is part of...

This lesson plan from Edmonds Community College will serve as an excellent introduction to the hardness of materials. The module illustrates the differences in properties between different materials. Students will determine property differences between different types of materials, observe property...